95 Quotes by Evan Osnos

There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

Young Chinese, who have grown up in an age of prosperity and stability, are typically the most passionate defenders of the Chinese political and economic way.

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.